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Definition of Picariae

1. Noun. Term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes.

Medical Definition of Picariae

1. An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds. Origin: NL, fr. L. Picus a woodpecker. (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Picariae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"This arrangement is adopted tentatively, as under the head of'Order IV, picariae' (p. i) we find the following: "The adoption of an 'order of ..."

2. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"The picariae comprise such a variety of forms that it has been termed the " avian ... The well-marked groups embraced under the term picariae, and often, ..."

3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1901)
"Under the head of picariae, however, Miiller included the ... and thus a group of " picariae " very different from that of Nitzsch was established. ..."

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